Showing posts with label reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reform. Show all posts

Sunday, March 21, 2010

US Health Care Reform - Pyrrhic victory in view?

An armada of log-rollers, rent-seekers & pork dealers led by irresponsible demagogues head towards Pyrrhic victory for American health care. The "will of the people" is irrelevant to House supporters of Obamacare. However, they will not be able to twist the arms of voters as they did with wavering democratic congressmen. Rasmussen poll on health reform reflects the discontent of taxpaying citizens who'll pay the price of a costly, bungled health "reform"... and who'll remember the names of those who supported it .

US Health Care Reform: Latest Rasmussen Poll

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Obama's Doctor's Diagnosis of ObamaCare... and the Neurosurgeons

Chicago physician David Scheiner who was Obama's doctor for over 20 years, believes his president's health reform concept is cut off from the realities of patient suffering and will hurt primary care. No one will contradict him there. Yet at the same time Dr Scheiner calls for more government intrusion through an extension of Medicare and proposes savings by capping neurosurgeon incomes.

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Scheiner is 71 years old. He is an internist. He may be unaware of breakthroughs in the neurosciences that will ultimately enable neurosurgeons to cure costly chronic neuro-psychiatric conditions. Leaving aside the predictable alleviation of human suffering (that has by and large become irrelevant in current health care reform debate), such progress also entails major and durable savings in terms of health care dollars. Litigation costs have already spawned a worrisome scarcity of specialists in one of the most difficult and yet promising areas of surgical practice. Intrusive targeting of neurosurgeons' incomes will only make this shortage worse.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The 4 deadly R's of Social-fascist health care Reform

Ransom: All pay for health care through mandatory premiums & taxes
Redistribution: Politicians & interest-groups decide where booties go
Regulation: Bureaucrats tell caregivers how to give care
Rationing: The aged & the severely ill get queues but not cures

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